Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, whatever they tell pollsters, are Americans better off? And has any appreciable difference been made by a President whose 1992 campaign aides told anyone who would listen that the issue of issues was "the economy, stupid!"? In an economy as enormous and complex as that of the U.S., there can rarely be any all-embracing answer, but the data and the stories of individual people show an extraordinary mix of achievement and stress...
...actually believe what you write? How can you be so stupid? Don't you know, as we enlightened liberals do, that your position is deeply flawed?" The tone of the question shows just how far left most Harvard students lean. (If we were to leave the island of liberalism we know as Cambridge, my classmates would be frightened to see just how moderate my positions really...
...stunted career-girl stereotype that Hollywood has already perfected for white women. "One of the things I was hoping to accomplish was to point out that we as women often choose men who aren't necessarily healthy for us," says McMillan. "The bottom line is that people will do stupid things when they want to feel loved." The lesson is lost on some viewers. "The movie didn't do black women any justice at all," says Gail Christopher, author of Anchors for the Innocent, a guidebook for single parents. "As black women we fight the stereotype of being oversexed...
...This memorial is intended to profoundly humble all who consider how frequently well-educated, brave, and sincere people spend their precious energies in causes which are inhuman, stupid and/or wrong. Robert C. Coates Judge of the Municipal Court, San Diego
...monthly rent for her Georgetown home. Although she showed moxie by turning her baby shower into a $500-a-head fund raiser, it won't be easy raising her child as a single mother and possibly former Congresswoman. Once you've told the world that you're "as stupid, as blind, as gullible, as naive" as a human being could be--and confessed that you can't even run the answering machine in your own house--it's hard to argue that you should be snipping away at the nation's budget...